Day 2 in Mumbai - city tour

I got up early (well...relatively) this morning and had a driver to take me on a short city tour while mum was out at meetings. He was pretty good and showed me some interesting places and had useful facts and figures. There are a selection of pictures below.

The architecture in Mumbai is fascinating. You have everything from shanty town huts to elegant buildings in British style that would not look out of place in Oxford or Cambridge.


A woman paying to feed a cow. Cows are sacred in India - it is considered good luck to feed a cow, so the people that own them bring them out during the day and sell feed to people so that they can give it to the cow. Quite a little moneyspinner I think...

This is the huge area where most of Mumbai's laundry is done. There are hundreds and hundreds of people washing clothes, sheets etc here - one day turnaround for the most part.

A temple we stopped at

The "floating" mosque - it's built out in the middle of the sea with a pedestrian causeway that runs out to it.

Detail on the temple

Part of the university - pretty cool spiral stair case in the corner

The university clock tower

In the university grounds

Victoria Terminus I think - can't remember if that is it or not

Definitely Victoria terminus

Detail on the temple again